How I knew Her

I wish you had written me a letter

I wish you had told me before

Before your mind was too old

Cause I would have liked to have known you better

Like my daughter knows me now

I would have liked some answers

But now no one can say

What it meant to see your daddy die

Under that tractor on that black hill

How you painted your pretty face

And did your hair each day

Before you my fetched my father's pills

You could have done a few things better

You didn't have to be so strong

You might have been the answer

But now no one can say

How we would've all turned out

If you had told it like you saw it

You knew how to smile

To keep the rest from finding out

What was hanging in our closet

We still say that you're closer to Jesus

Than anyone we've ever known

Oh what a cross to carry

Cause you did everything to please us

And now you're sitting in a home

I bet you'd like some answers

But now no one can sing

The third verse of that hymn you played

On that old organ in the parlor

But if you let me I'd fill your ears

With all the love you gave

And then you'd ask me how I knew her

Oh I like to think that I did

Because each day she seems

A little closer in the mirror

But we all know you're gone

And no one really knows you now

Did you not want us to remember